Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1938. 377pp. Plates. Folding map. Red cloth, t.e.g. Very good. Bookplate. The best edited edition of the classic of the Santa Fe Trail and the Mexican-American War, edited by Ralph Bieber.
Cincinnati. 1850. [6],349pp. Original blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Spine ends chipped, cloth with minor repair along hinges. Two bookplates on front pastedown. Very clean internally. A very good copy. In a cloth slipcase, printed paper label. The most readable work on the Santa Fe Trail, and a classic of Western.....
New York: Printed for the author by George P. Putnam, 1853. 336pp. plus frontispiece map and folding map. Original blindstamped brown cloth, spine gilt. Spine extremities and corners lightly worn, head of spine somewhat chipped. Pencil ownership inscription on front pastedown. Frontispiece map leaf loosening, text block cracked. Preliminaries and.....
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[N.p. N.d., ca. 1850]. 7pp., continuously paginated. 20th-century half cloth and paper boards. Old folds. Very good. A presentation copy, inscribed by Schuyler Hamilton to Samuel B. Ruggles on the front free endpaper. Ruggles was a lawyer in New York City, and New York Canal Commissioner. A very rare account.....
Cincinnati: U.P. James, [ 1880s?]. 202pp. including in-text illustrations. Dbd. Slight wear to endpapers, otherwise text is clean and bright. Very good. A very late issue of one of the classic, primary works on the campaign of the First Missouri Cavalry in New Mexico and Chihuahua. "The narrative is a......
Savannah. 1878. x,255,4pp. plus frontispiece portrait. Original green publisher's cloth, spine gilt. Minor wear. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Internally clean. Very good. Biography of Commodore Josiah Tattnall (1794- 1871), who served in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and in the Civil War on the Confederate side.....
Salt Lake City. 1890. 400pp. Original cloth, gilt title on front board, spine gilt, a.e.g. Recased, minor shelf wear. Very clean internally. Very good. Jones accompanied the Mexican-American War volunteers who marched from St. Louis in 1847, and went to Utah in 1850, where he played an active part in.....
Fort Riley, Ks. The Press of the Capper Printing Company, 1939. 441pp. plus two folding maps. Original blue cloth, gilt. Minor wear to the extremities, spine gilt a bit rubbed. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Very good. A general history of the Second Cavalry, encompassing their experiences in the Second.....
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. x,[64]pp. plus facsimiles and color plates. Quarto. Original cloth backed paper boards. Fine. In plain dust wrapper. One of 550 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Eyewitness accounts of happenings in California during that crucial period in its history, at the close of the.....
[Nebraska]: Orleans Sentinel Steam Print, 1887. 380pp. Numerous mispaginations. Modern half leather and marbled boards, old ex.-lib. stamp on endpaper, else very good. A presentation copy with inscription reading: "Compliments of S. V. Cole Adjutant General." A record of the veterans of the Civil War, War of 1812, and the.....
West Point, N.Y. November 14, 1848. [7]pp. on three quarto sheets (one bifolium, and two loose sheets). Two horizontal mailing folds, light foxing to last two sheets, a few very short fold separations. Very good. An unpublished report by George Brinton McClellan on his Mexican-American War service, written while a......
Baltimore. 1869. iv,125pp. Original maroon cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine faded, head and tail scuffed, corners rubbed. Ownership stamp on front and rear pastedowns, contemporary inscription on front flyleaf. Internally very clean. Very good. A compilation of medical essays, memoirs of McSherry's service in the war, and a......
Mobile & New York. 1857. 330pp. Original publisher's cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt. Cloth worn and faded. Minor foxing and toning. Good. Meek, a "pioneer worker in Alabama history" (DAB), recounts the early frontier days of Alabama, Mississippi, and West Florida, with some material on the Mexican-American War and.....
[Various places, see below. 1822-1862]. Various paginations, enumerated below. Most of the treaties are in folio format, with a few (noted below) in octavo. Entire collection bound in a single folio volume of 19th-century three-quarter red calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, raised bands. Boards worn and rubbed, later repairs.....
Mexico: Vicente Garcia Torres, 1847. 36pp. Original printed wrappers. Light corner and edge wear to wrappers, spine extremities slightly chipped. Initial leaves slightly wrinkled. Very good plus. In a red cloth folding case, leather label stamped in gilt. An anonymous account dated August 24, 1847, documenting the causes of the.....
[Washington, D.C. 1847]. Engraved map, 12 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, with hand- coloring, on a 19 1/2 x 23 3/4 inch sheet. Old folds. Small splits at four cross-folds. Foxing. Good. A scarce and detailed map of the Battle of Cerro Gordo, one of the important battles of the.....
New York: N. Currier, 1846. Aquatint lithograph, trimmed close but not affecting image, uniformly toned. Fair overall. Archival matting, and protected with Mylar sheet. A forceful primitive lithograph showing the American assault under the Stars and Stripes while the defenders blaze away.
[San Francisco: Fraternal Publishing Company, 1886]. 30pp., plus illustrations. Text in double columns. Printed wrappers, pictorial vignette on rear wrapper, bound into contemporary gilt cloth. Front hinge cracked, endpapers discolored. Very clean internally. Very good. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front pastedown: "Major Gen. Oliver O. Howard U.S.A. Commanding.....
Mexico City: Printed by R. Rafael, 1847. 7pp. Dbd. Minor toning, soft vertical crease throughout. Very good. The English-language portion of a rare bilingual-printed Mexican pamphlet from the waning months of the Mexican-American War. The Spanish portion of eight pages was published with a separate titlepage as INSTRUCCIONES OTORGADAS POR.....
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New York: H.R. Robinson, [1846]. Lithographic print, 11 x 17 inches (28 x 43 cm). Mounted to card stock. Ex-Library of Congress Prints Division, with their small ink stamp and pencil note reading “Dup” on the verso; small red ink stamp at bottom edge of recto reading “Microfilmed.” Near fine.....
Washington. 1846. 33pp. Dbd. Remnants of spine reinforcement, else very good. President Polk's calling for war to revenge the "wanton insults" by the Mexican government. An important document with much on the annexation of Texas and other examples of the deteriorating relationship with Mexico.
[Washington]. 1846. 131pp. Dbd. Minor marginal dampstain to a couple of leaves. Very good. Sen. Doc., 29th Cong. 1st Sess. A fundamental document in the history of the Mexican-American War. President Polk describes the status of Mexican-American relations, asserts that a state of war exists, and calls for upon the.....
[Washington. 1846]. 81pp. Dbd. Very good. In a blue cloth folder. Prints correspondence from generals Gaines and Scott, and concerns Scott's taking command of the army of occupation on the Texas frontier.
Mexico City. July 26, 1846. [48]pp. manuscript in Spanish. On stationery of the Ministerio de Guerra y Marina. Folio. Stitched, as issued, with contemporary ribbon. Upper inner corner of first two leaves chipped, without loss of text. Light soiling and wear to outer leaves; moderate soiling to final leaf, small.....
[Washington, D.C. 1847]. Engraved map, 16 x 25 1/4 inches, with hand- coloring, on a 19 1/2 x 27 inch sheet. Worn around the edges, with chips and loss, not affecting the map imagery itself. Two closed tears in the left edge do intrude into the map. Paper tanned, upper.....
